With over 106 million customers and applicants’ personal data exposed, the Capital One breach is one of the biggest breaches of a financial institution in US history. A former employee of Amazon’s cloud-computing unit was able to exploit a vulnerability in Capital One’s cloud service provider AWS,exposing some 140,000 Social Security Numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers of US customers.

Demands for a more efficient, but still secure and compliant, way to communicate while on the go have sparked many discussions for banks, financial advisors and the like. With the need for secure, real-time communications growing, financial institutions of all types are turning to secure messaging solutions.